October Days for Sustainable Development

22 October 2020

Biodiversity loss and pandemic emergency: reverse the trend for building a sustainable future

Giuseppe Di Carlo

Director

WWF Mediterranean Marine Initiative

Giuseppe Di Carlo is Director of the WWF Mediterranean Marine Initiative, which brings together eight WWF Offices in a joint conservation effort. He is responsible for helping Mediterranean countries to achieve key conservation and management targets, specifically on fisheries and marine protected areas (MPAs). He is also part of WWF’s Ocean Leadership Group, which sets the organisation’s agenda and goals on ocean protection.

Since 2008, Giuseppe has been involved in developing and implementing ecosystem-based management of conservation strategies. While working at Conservation International from 2008 to 2011, Giuseppe provided support to several country programmes around the world, from East Africa to South East Asia, Madagascar and the Mediterranean.

After completing his PhD in Marine Science, Giuseppe worked as a research scientist at NOAA in the US, focusing on coastal marine ecosystems and their adaptive response to disturbance and paying special attention to global issues such as climate change, on which he has published extensively. From 2012 to 2018, Giuseppe was a Member of the Board of Directors of MedPAN, the Mediterranean Network of MPA managers. From 2019, he is a Board Member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation.